New Stuff!!!

[popcornbird]

I miss Message Tracking in the PM system. Is that feature unavailable now? Will we still get pop ups when we get a new PM?

[RedHedd]

I like it! Now I have to go surf around and explore. Dang! I thought I was going to get some work done this morning! Thanks for all your hard work!

[K9soul]

Fantastic job, I think this will be really nice, especially once we all get used to it and get familiar with the new features! Now not to seem 'overdemanding' after all you have done, but I was wondering (since we are talking about new changes) if it'd be possible to add at least a couple more emoticons? I'd absolutely love to see a "love" one like one of these:








A crying one like one of these (sometimes a sad face just isn't strong enough):

[Ginger's Mom]

Hi Popcornbird. Message Tracking is still available. Private Messages is the second sub-heading on the left side of the CP page. The second (or is it third?) option down is Message Tracking. And it looks like we will still get pop-ups when we get a new PM (don't know if it works yet). I also love the fact that we can export the PM's so we can clean out the box yet still have our messages. I am a bit computer challenged, but I think I may try doing that some time this evening. Thanks Karen and Paul.
Edit: Just saw Jess's post on the emoticons. If we can get animated ones, can we get one of one laughing to replace the LOL we use (they have it on another board, wish I knew how to demonstrate like Jess did).

[Freckles]

Did you notice posts are numbered? Before we might reference something on the third page of a thread. Problem was we all might different number of posts set for a thread. Now we just reference a post number. Cool

[jazzcat]

I wasn't sure I was going to like the change but now that I've read this with Karen explaining how things works and everyone's tips I'm liking it.

Karen - you should post a sticky in General with a link to this tutorial for everyone. I think it would help make the transition easier for all. Some people may be like me, not too observant. I didn't even notice this new Town Hall forum until it was mentioned in another post in General.

[Flatcoatluver]

omg this is so cute!! i love the new smiley and everthing else! Thanks Paul and Karen for all your time!

[sandragonfly]

Thats alright, I keep it on 24/7 anyway, whether I am here or not!

Willie

I meant I didn't want anybody to think I'm on then PM me & wait, wait.. if I'm not here. well, I'd get a notification and reply to it as soon as I can anyway.

[Karen]

In the bottom left corner of your screen are the viewing options for Pet Talk. You have a choice, as others have noted, between the old (vBulletin 2) style, and the new (vBulletin 3 style) Pet Talk.

Rather than having people trying to remember which version of the software was which, we have changed the names of the two different styles. The new style is just called Pet Talk, the old style is called Widescreen, because that's essentially the big noticable difference.

[Karen]

Attachments You can now post attachments again. We have set it so that you can post more than one attachment per post as well. For those wondering why you can now post attachments, when we asked you not to before, the new version of the software stores attachments in a different fashion. It is no longer in a set-sized database.


Views We have set the "views" for each post to update only once an hour. It used to update automatically, but by setting it to only update once an hour, it will keep the system from bogging down.

[aly]

Everything looks great, Karen and Paul! It will be fun playing with all these new features

[tatsxxx11]

Great job Karen and Paul!!! Looks terrific with lots of neat options...Still "adjusting!" Thank you so much for all the work you put into this!

Two questions...with the old software I could use my "view" option on my computer's taskbar to make the font size (for the site) larger or smaller but can't seem to change it now. Would that be due to the new program?

Also, miss having the option of clicking on the dog, cat and pet of the day write up links at the bottom of the page. Often refer back to them when writing my reply. Any chance of getting that back?

And did I read somewhere that you added a chat room? Can't find the post now or a link!

Thanks!

[Kfamr]

Yes, we get pop-ups when we get PM's - I just got a few and it tells you the subject and sender in the pop-up!

[Uabassoon]

Wow! Things sure do look different around here! Love the new look, now I'm off to explore

[Karen]

Great job Karen and Paul!!! Looks terrific with lots of neat options...Still "adjusting!" Thank you so much for all the work you put into this!

Two questions...with the old software I could use my "view" option on my computer's taskbar to make the font size (for the site) larger or smaller but can't seem to change it now. Would that be due to the new program?

Also, miss having the option of clicking on the dog, cat and pet of the day write up links at the bottom of the page. Often refer back to them when writing my reply. Any chance of getting that back?

And did I read somewhere that you added a chat room? Can't find the post now or a link!

Thanks!

We'll be adding those links back in, thanks for the reminder.

We didn't add a chat room, but Randi set one up for the time Pet Talk was down, which helped afterwards as I was able to talk to her regarding her log-in troubles!